Blockchain startup Avaneer Health scored $50 million in seed funding from large healthcare industry players.
Its first network participants include insurers Aetna, Anthem and Health Care Service Corporation, providers Cleveland Clinic and Sentara Healthcare, and the PNC Financial Services Group.
WHAT IT DOES
Founded in 2020, Avaneer offers a network using blockchain and FHIR technologies to allow...
Regulatory body approves POC use of Cue Health's COVID-19 test in India
Cue Health, a California-based health tech company, has recently got regulatory approval from the Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation for its COVID-19 test for professional point-of-care use in India.
The company claims its molecular-based diagnostic test provides "highly accurate, lab-quality results" that are sent...
Australia seeks developer of digital health app with COVID-19 vaccination pass
The Australian government has started looking for a developer for its smartphone app project that will store COVID-19 vaccination certificates and test results.
Based on a recently issued tender request by the Australian Digital Health Agency, the digital health app must connect to the government's My Health Record...
Signify Health is turning to the blockchain space with its acquisition of PatientBlox, a tech company that helps facilitate contracts and payments in healthcare.
Georgia-based PatientBlox focuses on the value-based care space. Its blockchain technology platform is used to assist with the administrative side of healthcare, including data sharing and value-based payment models. Its primary product...
Over the last few weeks three pharma companies released promising trial data from their COVID-19 vaccines, bringing a possible light at the end of the tunnel to the pandemic. While the vaccines are still yet to hit the market, discussion of distribution is beginning to surface. Blockchain, a technology that makes the data easy to verify and difficult to falsify, has come into the conversation. ...
Verifiable, a healthcare identity startup that recently launched out of Y Combinator, has raised $3 million in seed funding, TechCrunch reports. The money came from institutional investors Tiger Global, Liquid2 Ventures, Struck Capital and Soma Capital, as well as individual backers Jack Altman, Max Mullen and Sahil Lavingia.
WHAT IT DOES
Verifiable has built an API to help organizations confirm...
About the author: Dr. Liz Kwo is currently the staff VP of clinical data analytics at Anthem, and previously cofounded and served as CEO of telemedicine second opinion company InfiniteMD. She received an MD from Harvard Medical, an MBA from Harvard Business School and an MPH from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
COVID-19 has reshaped the way humans interact with technology in...
UK-based medtech company MediConnect have announced a new partnership with software specialists Rishabh Software to build a pilot version of their new medical supply chain management platform. The platform will be the first blockchain-based application to manage the supply chain for ordering personal protective equipment (PPE) and medication across multiple health care practices.
WHY IT MATTERS...
Cancelled conference data trickles out. Digital respiratory-health company Propeller Health recently shared new study data that were accepted for presentation at the now cancelled Society of Behavioral Medicine 2020 Annual Meeting.
The first of the three abstracts described a sample of 617 adults with asthma or COPD, in which older patients engaged with Propeller's app for longer periods of time...
SWISS ARMY TESTS TRACING APP
A COVID-19 contact tracing app is being trialed by 100 soldiers at the Chamblon army base near Lausanne, Switzerland. The Bluetooth-enabled app logs if users have spent more than 15 minutes within two metres of another user. Then, when one uploads a positive test result for COVID-19, the system and alerts users to the contact. In order to test its efficacy, the...
